![]() The shocking ending in Crooked House is one of AgathaĬhristie’s greatest. ![]() ![]() ![]() I saved it up for years, thinking about it, working it out, saying to myself: ‘One day, when I’ve plenty of time, and want to really enjoy myself – I’ll begin it.’Ĭrooked House is one of the only Christie crime novels not to be adapted for the screen, although in 2008 it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in four weekly 30 minute episodes. Agatha Christie writes: ‘This book is one of my own special favourite. Published in the US in March 1949, the title of Crooked House refers to the nursery rhyme ‘ There Was a Crooked Man.’ In the foreword of the book, Agatha Christie describes writing Crooked House as pure pleasure. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. Crooked house by Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Audio An illustration of a 3.5' floppy disk. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. ![]()
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